Employees who hold the vouchers under workplace motivation and reward schemes have been encouraged to redeem them while they can.

John Sylvester, executive director of motivation provider P&MM, said: “For the last two weeks we have been in contact with our customers encouraging them to spend their Kingfisher vouchers, which we believe the vast majority have done, enjoying some excellent bargains in the process. For those that have not been able to spend their vouchers we have put a process in place to ensure that, as far as possible, none of our customers loses out.”

Its a shame Kingfisher did not publicise this so that ordinary customers would be aware of the suspension. Will they compensate people for vouchers they cannot spend because there was no or very poor publicity of this suspension.